Accessible Halloween Costume Ideas for Disabled People

Spooky season is upon us and so we are sharing some of our favourite accessible halloween costume ideas!

Detective

Intotum have some great ideas on their instagram of how to use their accessible clothes and turn them into brilliant Halloween costumes for disabled people. Here they use their backless trench coat to show how you can create a detective costume for wheelchair users.

A man sits in a wheelchair wearing a beige Mac surrounded by the accessories to create an accessible halloween costume for a wheelchair user of a detective

Halloween Costumes for People with a Limb Difference

Josh Sundquist on TikTok is a self professed Halloween enthusiast, he has a limb difference and uses this to create some wonderfully unique Halloween costumes for people with one leg, including Groot, the Pixar lamp and Thor’s hammer!!

@josh.sundquist
I just hope he thought real me was cooler than duct tape me. #halloween #costumes
♬ I Can See You (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault) – Taylor Swift

SlaywithSparkle

SlaywithSparkle is a Disabled Content Creator, Model and Motivational Speaker who lives with Crohn’s, HSD/JHS and dysautonomia, Her Halloween costume this year was a viking warrior and she made her Neowalks walking stick into a sword! You can find SlaywithSparkle on instagram and TikTok and have a look at her website.

A split image, one half is Lizzie, a blonde woman dressed like a viking warrior, she is holding a walking stick that has been made to look like a sword, the right side is a close up of the sword/walking stick

Hannibal Lector

Drew Clayborn is a C1-C2 quadriplegic and is on tiktok teaching quality AND quantity of life. His Silence of the Lambs Hannibal Lector costume uses his wheelchair with great humour.

@drewclayborn
Hannibal Lecter making his entrance… 😈 #silenceofthelambs #Quadriplegic #wheelchair #disability #disabled #halloween #costume #wheelchaircostume
♬ The Silence of the Lambs (Movie Main Theme) – The Movie Soundtrack Experts

Halloween Costumes for Wheelchair Users

Rachelles Wheels on TikTok is a wheelchair user, she shares some of her favourite accessible halloween costumes with us, including Dead bride, wheelchair Barbie, John Deere Tractor, Sun Godess, Tafiti and Elsa, which is your favourite?

@rachelles_wheels
Which costume is your favorite!? #Costume #CostumeIdeas #Halloween #Wheelchair #Disability #FYP
♬ Pretty Girls Walk – Big Boss Vette

Adapting a Wheelchair for Halloween Costumes

Shaun Hart on TikTok shares videos of his life with his daughter and here we see some of his favourite accessible halloween costumes from the past few years of his daughter.

@sharts_eww
wheelchair Halloween costumes by year. #halloweencostume #specialneedsdad #wheelchairlife #cerebralpalsy #specialneedsparenting #specialneedschildren #wheelchaircostume
♬ Monster Mash – Countdown Singers

Will you be getting dressed up for Halloween this year? Everyone from Purpl hopes you have a fun filled Halloween!! If you are a Purpl member, join our members only Facebook group where we share the latest deals first and you can share your halloween costumes with us!